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PayPal pitches into UK mobile payments fray
Online US payments services firm Paypal is to launch its own chip and pin service in Britain this summer, allowing users to connect wirelessly to its free app for Android and Apple smartphones.
Trials of the new service called PayPal Here have already started in London and will be aimed at small businesses and mobile traders who can’t afford the chip and pin machines offered by high street banks. Continue reading
Posted in PayPal, mobile news
Tagged chip and pin service, EMV, iZettle, Payleven, paypal, Square
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NCR and Paypal working together to make everyday easier for consumers when dining out and shopping
NCR’s broad hospitality and retail footprint coupled with more than 117 million PayPal customers offers scale to accelerate adoption of mobile-enhanced consumer shopping and payments
Press release
January 15th 2013. NCR Corporation (NYSE: NCR) and PayPal, an eBay (NASDAQ: EBAY) company, have announced an agreement to integrate NCR’s innovative mobile solutions for hospitality and retail with PayPal’s leading digital payment technology. The combination provides restaurants and retailers an easy, powerful way to offer consumers a rich mobile and digital payment experience when buying the goods and services they want. Continue reading
Posted in Press Release, mobile payments, retail
Tagged National Restaurant Association, NCR, paypal, POS
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VoX Mobile adds PayPal Mobile Wallet to Android app
Rating: Invest as little as $1 to make international calls
VoIP apps seem all the rage these days and VoX Mobile’s VoIP calling application is no exception. GoMobile News has covered this product previously (see our report here.) Now reseller, Techwave Marketing has contacted us again to promote the fact that the Vox mobile app has been updated to include support for the PayPal Mobile Wallet. So this facility has become available to PayPal’s over one hundred million users. GoMobile News isn’t a big fan of PayPal but some people obviously don’t share our concerns. Continue reading
UK’s Monitise revs up for fast lane
£24m cash injection to help mobile payments firm accelerate growth
AIM-listed Monitise, which provides mobile payments technology for Visa and most of the UK high street banks, will pass another milestone this Wednesday [29th August 2012] when it raises around £24 million through the placing of up to 81 million new shares. With the pace of mobile payment innovation hotting up and Apple tipped to introduce its own scheme with its new iPhone next month [September 2012], rival contenders need to secure turf now before users of the new technologies get too settled. Continue reading
Posted in Apple, google, mobile payments
Tagged Alastair Lukies, mobile payments, monitise, paypal, visa, Wallet
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Retailer-in-a-field-at-a-music-festival payment system from mPowa
Rating: It’s British but it ain’t quite here yet
Talk about cryptic ways on announcing the launch of a new product. mPowa‘s Rye Starr just left up a comment against one of our stories. What she should have done is left the message against this story’Eventbrite takes on PayPal with At The Door reader‘. That news item covered two payment solutions aimed at the mobile retailer. One was PayPal Here (see our previous story) whilst the other was from Eventbrite. Both focus on iOS devices and have a distinctly US-orientated flavour. By contrast, Mpowa looks very British and claims to have a BlackBerry OS client, too. The one snag – well, mPowa isn’t actually available yet. Continue reading
Posted in BlackBerry, PayPal, iOS, mobile payments, retail
Tagged Electric Pedals, Evenbrite, Here, mPowa, paypal, Rye Starr, Square, Womad
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Eventbrite takes on PayPal with At The Door reader
Rating: No excuse for not accepting credit cards in a field
Hot on the heels of the announcement of the PayPal Here offering (see our previous story) which can turn iOS devices into credit card readers comes the At The Door card reader from Eventbrite. Being an online site that has served served almost 500,000 events last year [2011] and has sold more than 52 million tickets worldwide, just like PayPal Here, the At The Door solution is aimed at events organisers who want to collect payments on the door. Companies that use the Eventbrite card reader will be charged a three per cent fee on top of the service fee. PayPal charges 2.7 per cent. Continue reading
Posted in PayPal, iOS, mobile payments
Tagged At The Door, CDW, Eventbrite, iPad, paypal, printer, Square, star
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Paypal takes swipe at NFC
Rating: Not trying to merely replace the card swipe with an NFC tap
Following the launch of the PayPal Carrier Payment Network, the company has taken a swipe at NFC technology. PayPal’s head of mobile, David Marcus, told the Guardian here, “For NFC to succeed you need consumers to have the handsets, and merchants to install the terminals. It will take time for NFC to get mass adoption. By the time NFC catches up, we’ll be in a world that will move away from the point-of-sales terminal.” Instead of focussing on NFC – which has proved very popular at MWC 2012 – Paypal is highlighting its alliances with merchants which it says will enable them to grab a slice of the digital goods industry, which should be worth $220 billion by 2014 [source: Juniper Research]. Paypal pointed at alliances with Entradas.com, Pizza Express and Yotel. Continue reading
Posted in mobile payments
Tagged Carrier Payment Network, David Marcus, Entradas.com, paypal, pizza express, The Guardian, Yotel
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AppMobi goes beta with HTML5 tool for games
Rating: Write it once and roll it out to iOS, Android and Facebook
Open mobile software specialist, appMobi, has just announced a public beta trial of its playMobi offering. This is an HTML5-based cross-platform game development, deployment, and monetisation SDK. The key advantage is that it provides HTML5 game developers with a ‘write it once’ [...]
PayPal Says Mobile Payments To Hit $3 Billion
How many of you have used PayPal’s mobile app to transfer money? How many of you have purchased on mobile online-commerce sites using PayPal? Paypal forecasts $3 billion in mobile-device payments in 2012.
The online payments service, which is owned by eBay, had projected last fall that it would process $1.5 billion in 2011. It [...]
Posted in Mobile Marketing, mobile news
Tagged apps, commerce, eBay, gomonews, mobile, Online, payment, paypal
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Majority of Brits ‘scared’ by Mobile Payments
Fears over phone hacking are dominating British consumers’ security concerns about mobile wallet payments. According to research by Intersperience, these concerns are likely to hamper UK-wide adoption of new mobile payment systems. Continue reading
Posted in mobile payments
Tagged airwave, google wallet, intersperience, mobie payments, paypal
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Quiz TV show runs on iOS, Android and Facebook
Rating: Sophisticated collection and payments tech behind it
Claiming to be the first ever 24 hour Quiz TV channel which runs on mobile (iOS and Android) and a social network (Facebook), CashPlayTV has just launched. The channel gives players the chance to win instant cash prizes. It’s also sophisticated because it enables players to gamble by paying through PRS (Premium Rate SMS) or via a premium rate call (and costs about £1.50 a throw). Perhaps the most interesting aspect is that app developers can embed the game in unique revenue sharing model. CashPlayTV is being supported with the launch of a £100,000 digital marketing campaign to promote the channel across multiple platforms. Continue reading
Posted in SMS, android, iOS, mobile developers, mobile payments
Tagged android, App*Play, CashPlayTV, Facebook, Henry Bennett, iOS, ofcom, paypal, PhonepayPlus, PRS, SMS
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Flexion’s wrapper enables 1 free mobile app trial per/sec
Rating: developers stand better chance of making money from apps
Android and Java ‘wrappers’ from Flexion are currently enabling more than one free trial per second, the company claims. It also maintains that it is adding over four million new consumers per month to its platform. Jens Lauritzson, CEO with Flexion explained, “Instead of making developers add billing SDKs to their game code, we let them wrap their products with the Flexion wrapper which automatically enables in-app billing for products. These can then be distributed via app stores as free downloads.” As an example of Flarion’s technology, Nokia customers in 68 markets can now download any Java game from EA and play it for free before deciding whether to commit to a purchase. Purchases are then made securely via operator billing via the Flexion wrapper. The wrapper comes with an add-on feature called Discovery, Flexion’s on device portal, to promote more games to customers. Continue reading
Going for a Zong – eBay buys mobile payer
Rating: High hopes of addressing four billion phone users
It seems that at least one US based giant, eBay, has recognised the value of having a mobile arm which can process payments for mobile phone users. Consequently, it has announced its intention to buy the mobile-payments company, Zong, for about $240 million. The advantage is that Zong possesses connexions with over 250 different mobile operators in 45 countries worldwide. eBay already has a payments arm, PayPal, and the company is obviously hoping that Zong will help build its position in mobile payments. PayPal virtually disenfranchises the young and the unbanked – two of the most important sectors amongst mobile phone users. The question is – who will be next? Android fans find it incredibly hard to make purchases from the Android Market, so maybe Google should have bought Zong, perhaps? And Bango surely must be an ideal target for anyone wanting to get into the mobile payments business. Continue reading
Posted in google, mobile payments
Tagged amazon, eBay, Facebook, myspace, paypal, Scott Thompson, Zong
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Bet on the Grand National by smartphone
Rating: A lot easier if you have an iPhone
From the very beginnings of the mobile Internet, it became clear that a desire to gamble could entice even technophobes into learning how to place bets from their handsets. So it is something of a tradition to investigate every year just how difficult it is to bet on the UK’s Grand National race at Aintree – which takes place tomorrow [April 9th]. In the early days, the solution meant accessing WAP sites and to some extent things remain the same today. The big difference is that if you’re an Apple iPhone user, it is now very easy. For other smartphone users, things are a little different. Continue reading
Posted in Mobile Web, Mobile applications, android, iphone
Tagged bet, Blue Square, Curve, dot mobi, Grand National, horse, MoneyBookers, Mony, Neteller, Paddy Power, paypal, Perfect Partner, racing, racing post, Shake-a-bet, SkyBET, virgin mobile, WAP, William Hill
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